dalchina, thank you for the great suggestion...

keep it off of C... and put it/keep it where?

i have 2 external drives... and devices fail all of
the time

recommendations?

thank you

thank you all for your responses...

i used both of these:
Hard Disk Sentinel (trial) - great clear initial text report
HD Tune (free) - Health and Error scan.

no boot sector found but the...

Windows 10/64

1 TB hard drive
500 GB hard drive

PC crashed and recovered

next day, screen read something about using a boot disk

no OS was found on the HD

I right clicked in my documents folder and do not
see command or netview?

thank you

Karen

I ran a troubleshooter on the pc that is connected to the
external hard drives.

this is the outcome of the troubleshooting:
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Troubleshooting complete...

Hi Bro67.
Sorry... I do not know what you mean?

Thanks Karen

My computers crashed a few days ago - power failure -

when everything was back up, my external hard drives were no longer
visible on one PC in my network/homegroup

the files are still...

I use the volume control constantly - start button seldom -

Tried to adjust the volume yesterday and the slider did not
come up. had to open Volume Mixer to adjust sound.

Search (cortana)...

heheheheheee

Thank you
Karen

Hi HTH

Sorry... I don't know where to look for those settings???

Please direct me.

Thanks
Karen

Thank you for this info... I will look into Google DriveK

Karen

One of my external drives is almost full
again and I've not been adding anything
to it.

I found a folder that reads "FileHistory"

Folder inside: Data

in it are two folders:
$0F - 38.32...

I made the mistake of assuming that onedrive operated the same
as other storage software like DropBox, etc...

with DB, I just drag and drop things into folders in the desktop
app and they are...

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sfc /sannow: windows resource protection did not find any integrity violations
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth: ...

Some of these files were also going into my desktop OneDrive...

I don't think that any were going to the online folder..

Most of the folders in my desktop OD were empty folders

Same with...

I enabled OneDrive on my computers.

My main computer seemed to get slower and slower.

I clicked on "This PC" and my internal drive was red - showing
about 20 GB space where there had been...

Howard.... it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK... I went and changed that...removed the #

(I moved the hosts document to desktop... made the changes
and saved it ...then moved it back to etc. I couldn't find any
other way to do that......

I may have misunderstood ....

I just went to little computer and entered

>ping supercomputer and the result
Ping request could not find host SuperComputer. Please check
the name and try...

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I did the ipconfig for "supercomputer" (one with the external
hard drives that need to be used by all PC's)

This is what came back:

Windows IP Configuration
...

I have 3 PC's and a laptop on a homegroup/network

All computers were able to see and access files and external
hard drives - until a power failure.

Now, one computer displays the other 3...

Thank you for this info...

Please, where do I find "File Manager" I see File Explorer?

when I click on File Explorer, I do not see "documents"

thanks

I called Microsoft about the problems with One Drive and
their support people logged into my computer and deleted
and reinstalled One Drive and that's when the "fun" began

I'm aware of those...

I have uninstalled Adobe acrobat =- still have Air
and Flash Player. Do I NEED to have flash player?

On a different note....

One Drive just about consumed my main computer

For some reason,...

Kaspersky is Total Security 17.0.0.611

Just purchased at the end of October 2016

Didn't uninstall msssessentials ... was told that
it's part of the OS of Windows 10???

Kaspersky is now...